And this is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all.

If we say that we have fellowship with Him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.

If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His Word is not in us.

And by this we know that we have known Him, if we keep His commandments.

He who says, I have known Him, and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

But whoever keeps His Word, truly in this one the love of God is perfected. By this we know that we are in Him.

He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk even as He walked.

Again, I write a new commandment to you, which thing is true in Him and in you, because the darkness is passing away, and the true Light now shines.

He who loves his brother abides in the light, and there is no offense in him.

I write to you, fathers, because you have known Him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, little children, because you have known the Father.

I write to you, fathers, because you have known Him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the Word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

Do not love the world, nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

But the anointing which you received from Him abides in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But as His anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true and no lie, and as He has taught you, abide in Him.

And now, little children, abide in Him, so that when He is revealed, we may have confidence and not be ashamed before Him in His coming.

If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone who does righteousness has been born of Him.

Behold what manner of love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God. Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.

Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be. But we know that when He shall be revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.

And everyone who has this hope on him purifies himself, even as that One is pure.

And you know that He was revealed that He might take away our sins, and in Him is no sin.

Everyone who abides in Him does not sin. Everyone who sins has not seen Him nor known Him.

Everyone who has been born of God does not commit sin, because His seed remains in him, and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.

not as Cain who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. And for what did he kill him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's things were righteous.

Everyone hating his brother is a murderer. And you know that no murderer has everlasting life abiding in him.

But whoever has this world's goods and sees his brother having need, and shuts up his bowels from him, how does the love of God dwell in him?

And in this we shall know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before Him,

And whatever we ask, we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do those things that are pleasing in His sight.

And he who keeps His commandment dwells in Him, and He in him. And by this we know that He abides in us, by the Spirit which He gave to us.

In this the love of God was revealed in us, because God sent His only begotten Son into the world that we might live through Him.

By this we know that we dwell in Him, and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit.

Whoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwells in him and he in God.

And we have known and believed the love that God has in us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

We love Him because He first loved us.

And we have this commandment from Him, that he who loves God should love his brother also.

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. And everyone who loves Him who begets also loves him who has been born of Him.

He who believes on the Son of God has the witness in himself. He who does not believe God has made Him a liar, because he does not believe the record that God gave of His Son.

And this is the confidence that we have toward Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.

And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of Him.

If anyone sees his brother sin a sin not to death, he shall ask, and He shall give him life for those that do not sin to death. There is a sin to death, I do not say that he shall pray for it.

We know that everyone who has been born of God does not continue to sin, but the one born of God guards himself, and the evil one does not touch him.

And we know that the Son of God has come, and He has given us an understanding so that we may know Him who is true. And we are in Him that is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and the everlasting life.